Sayaka Ishii surprises Sara Saito 6-1 6-1 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Tuesday in what was an all-Japanese match after playing a terrific match to deal with Zeynep Sonmez in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 26 minutes. This will be her best result in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the qualifications in 2022 and 2023. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Ishii added to her prize money $ 3,770 after winning this match. She has already won $ 13,590 after this win. If she wins the next match, Ishii will add $ 11,320 to her earnings to get in total $ 24,910 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
75
52
27
23
36%
44%
1
1
4
5
63%
64%
68%
56%
27/40
23/41
57%
26%
13/23
6/23
5/14
0/7
36%
0%
At the end of the match, Sayaka scored 75 points vs. Sara’s 52.
Ishii
Sayaka won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 36% (5/14) of the procured opportunities.
Saito
On the other side, Sara wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/7). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Ishii and Saito is 1-0 for Sayaka.
Draw and next match H2H: Sayaka Ishii vs. Zeynep Sonmez – stats
Ishii will take on Sonmez in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Sayaka Ishii and Zeynep Sonmez since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
Kyoka OkamuraOkamura – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (7-64 6-3)
Katie BoulterBoulter – Priscilla HonHon (6-1 6-4)
Sofia KeninKenin – Xinyu WangWang (6-1 6-4)
Mccartney KesslerKessler – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-3 6-3)
Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Mika StojsavljevicStojsavljevic (6-4 6-77 7-66)
Sayaka IshiiIshii – Sara SaitoSaito (6-1 6-1)
Clara TausonTauson – Nao HibinoHibino (6-2 6-3)
Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (7-63 6-3)
Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (5-7 6-2 5-2 ret.)
Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Mai HontamaHontama (6-1 7-64)
Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi (7-5 6-3)
Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-6 6-4 6-3)
Upcoming matches
Qinwen ZhengZheng – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H details and stats
Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H details and stats
Sofia KeninKenin – Clara TausonTauson (0-1) – H2H details and stats
Mccartney KesslerKessler – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H details and stats
Katie BoulterBoulter – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (0-0) – H2H details and stats
Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-0) – H2H details and stats